I traveled through time and space and found a mute boy: That’s enough, I feel sorry for him

Chapter 268 Royal Merchant

Qiao Jianhong spoke first: "Your Majesty, I, Qiao Jianhong, pay my respects to you. Long live your Majesty."

Xu Shu also chanted with him, "Long live the country!"

Mu Jinghua remained silent, finding this scene very strange.

The eunuch glanced around and said to Qiao Jianhong, "I was originally going to visit Minister Bai. Since the general is here, please run errands for me and ask the young master to come and receive the decree."

"Where is the young master?" Qiao Jianhong was puzzled at first, thinking that the eunuch was talking about Bai Danchen, but then he saw Mu Jinghua standing beside him and suddenly realized, "Eunuch Wang...are you talking about the young master of Prime Minister Mu's family?"

"That's right." Eunuch Wang smiled. "I received the order in a hurry and didn't know the various relationships. Thank you for your advice, General."

Qiao Jianhong ignored his polite words and glanced at Xu Shu with a heavy heart. Seeing his indifferent look, he couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows. Then he pointed at Mu Jinghua and said, "This is the young master of the Mu family."

Mu Jinghua couldn't help but frown when he heard him introduce himself like this.

Eunuch Wang glanced at him and asked loudly, "Are you Mu Jinghua?"

Mu Jinghua nodded and was about to stand up when he heard the eunuch say, "Mu Jinghua, listen to my order. Kneel down."

Mu Jinghua frowned, but looking at Xu Shu who had no intention of getting up, he still did as he was told and listened to the eunuch reading the imperial edict.

However, the contents of the imperial edict were too difficult to understand, and no one knew how the eunuch could pronounce it. Mu Jinghua listened to the entire process and only understood Mu Yilou and his own name.

However, seeing that Xu Shu looked calm, he guessed that he had expected all this and was not overly worried. He just treated it as a formality. In his mind, he was still thinking about how many things there were to deal with in the capital.

After the eunuch finished reading, he did not ask Mu Jinghua if he understood it or not. He just said, "Mu Jinghua, come forward and receive the order."

Mu Jinghua said "oh" then stood up and took the "imperial edict" from Eunuch Wang.

Eunuch Wang smiled and said, "Young Master Mu will be a favorite of the Queen Mother in the future. When you work for the royal family, I will give you a few words of advice. Please don't think it's too long-winded."

Mu Jinghua nodded as if he understood, and subconsciously looked at Xu Shu.

Xu Shu had already stood up and stood behind him. When he met his gaze, he smiled faintly and took out a heavy purse from his arms without any hurry. "You must have worked hard to come out, eunuch. Please take some time to come to Muyi Building to show your favor."

“Oh, Master Xu, you are too polite.” Eunuch Wang said polite words, but he took the money without slowing down. He smiled so brightly that you couldn’t even find his eyes. “Young Master Mu, the palace is different from other places. No matter what you hear or see, you must keep it firmly in your heart, otherwise…”

He made a gesture of dropping his head, his face gloomy.

Seeing him like this, Mu Jinghua felt that the situation was serious and nodded seriously.

The eunuch looked at Mu Jinghua calmly, and had a vague idea in his mind.

Although this young man was born in the countryside, he was very lucky to meet a noble man like Xu Shu. Not only was he able to come to the capital from a remote place...but as soon as he arrived, he actually caught the eye of the empress dowager as he wished.

Although His Majesty and the Queen Mother are not on good terms, they still have to consider the relationship between mother and son. I'm afraid Prime Minister Mu will be eager to take the child back to the ancestral hall.

I'm afraid there will be some trouble in Shangjing again.

Eunuch Wang was thinking a lot. When he came back to his senses and saw Qiao Jianhong, he was a little surprised: "General Qiao, you don't look well. Are you feeling unwell?"

Qiao Jianhong hummed and waved his hand: "I have nothing to do. The eunuch still needs to go back to the palace. It's better to hurry up and don't waste time."

Eunuch Wang gave two fake smiles, said nothing more, and turned away.

Just as he was leaving, Bai Danchen and Old Master Bai arrived late.

Xu Shu briefly explained the whole story to them: "Xiao Mujin developed a kind of ointment in the past, which is good for beauty and skin care. It is very popular among local girls and brothers. Since we are coming to Beijing, we naturally have to bring this good thing with us."

"But I thought that promoting it step by step would be too slow, so I boldly handed it over to the nobles in the palace. I didn't expect that the Queen Mother would love it so much and directly appointed Xiao Mujin as the Royal Merchant to supply the royal family exclusively."

"Royal Merchant?" Mu Jinghua realized belatedly that he seemed to have heard this term just now, "I became a royal merchant?"

Xu Shu pinched his nose and said, "Are you so happy that you are stupid? Why did you just react?"

Mu Jinghua pushed Xu Shu and said angrily, "I am not."

Old Master Bai was also happy: "I didn't know my good grandson was so smart. He could make such a good thing and it caught the eyes of the royal family..."

Mu Jinghua had no idea what Xu Shu was talking about. Although he studied medicine, he had never thought of making these beauty and skin care products. It was his senior brother who was more interested in these things.

As for him...his favorite thing is to make poisons and the like.

He shook his head embarrassedly, his voice a little awkward: "Grandfather, I'm not that good."

"Amu, don't underestimate yourself." Bai Danchen also said, "The Jing Dynasty has been at war for many years, and few new merchants have prospered. As soon as you came to the capital, you got the title of imperial merchant. This is a good thing that others can't envy for several lifetimes."

Mu Jinghua wanted to argue, but Xu Shu interrupted, "It's almost time, why don't we go eat first?"

He looked at Qiao Jianhong who had been silent the whole time: "Why does General Qiao look worse and worse?"

Qiao Jianhong sneered: "Mr. Xu is really scheming and has a lot of tricks."

Xu Shu blinked his eyes, as if he vaguely remembered something, and continued: "Speaking of this, I have to thank your sister very much. If it weren't for her, it would be extremely difficult for me to meet a noble in the palace."

Qiao Jianhong's face became even darker. He was so angry that he simply said goodbye to Old Master Bai and Bai Danchen.

Then he raised his sleeves and left.

Bai Danchen looked at Qiao Jianhong worriedly: "Master Xu, do you... have any old grudges?"

Xu Shu did not hide it and laughed coldly: "It's more than just old grudges."

Mu Jinghua pulled Bai Danchen towards the other courtyard and changed the subject: "Uncle, I'm hungry. Let's go eat."

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As soon as Qiao Jianhong returned home, he looked for Qiao Wan and asked, "Why are you unwilling to help me no matter what?"

Qiao Wan was stunned when she heard this, and asked a little embarrassedly: "Is there any news from the palace?"

Qiao Jianhong did not comment, but only said: "You and Xu Shu are just from the same place, and you didn't know each other before. Can the friendship between you be stronger than the brother-sister relationship between you and me?"

"Don't say that." Qiao Wan sat down and poured himself a cup of tea. "I still say the same thing, you are too extreme, Qiao Jianhong."

"Reincarnation is impossible. You have waited for so many years, why haven't you faced the reality yet?"

"Why can't I show up?" Qiao Jianhong crushed the teacup in his hand. Blood mixed with tea flowed down, but he didn't notice it at all. He only questioned Qiao Wan, "Just because of Mu Jinghua, just because he is the protagonist, my Dan Chen must be a reproductive tool and marry that bastard Mu Tonghai. She must go through those things and have to..."

"Must I die?"